Trunk-handle



. UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

E. A..ANDREWS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

TRUNK-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 7,981,"dated March 18, 1851.

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ELIJAH A. ANDREWS, of New Britain, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, havefinvented a new and useful`Improvement `in Lifting- Handlesfor Trunks and other Articles; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full clear, and eXact descriptionof the construction and operation of the same,`reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, which make a part of this specification, inwhichn Y Figure l, is a perspective view of one of the lifting handles,complete, showing the movable part as it hangs down by its own weight...Figa 2, is a perspective View ofthel same, showing the movable partturned up, as when lifting by it. `F ig. 3, `is a perspective View ofthe plate, or stationary part, showing the spaces in which the journalsof the movable" parts are" inserted and held. Fig. 4, is a perspectiveview of the movable part., showing the journals &`c.

My improvement consists; in casting the lifting handle in two part,complete,`so that when taken from the mold themovable part may beslipped into the spaces inthe plate,

or stationary part, and immediately attached to any pieceof furniture,for use, without any riveting, or otherwise fastening the partstogether.` l

'I make thestationary part, A, Figs. 3, 2, and 1, of cast iron, or othersuitable metal, of any desired shape, (ornamental orplaim) with tworaised, and hollow4 parts, Band B', Fig. 3, &c., to receive the ends,orjournals, of the movable part, C, as seen in Figs. 1, and 2. Under, orbehind, these projections, B, andBQare slots, or spaces, openthrough theplate, A, as seen at w, and Fig. 3. These projections are so shaped thatthey will hold the journal of the movable 4part in the proper positionfor use, as seen 1n Fig. 2, or at rest, as seen in Fig. l, while thehandle is attached to the trunk, lor other piece of furniture, &c., butwhen the handle is not attached to any article, the movable part, C, maybe `attached j to, or detached from, the stationary part., A, atpleasure.

I make the movable part, C, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, of cast iron, or othermetal, in the ordinary shape, with journals. on the ends, as seen at andb, Fig. 4. Having thus :cast the two parts, I insert the end,`? of lthemovable part, Fig. 4, through the slot,

or space, a, Fig. 3, a suilicient distance to allow the end, to fallinto the slot, or

space, a, when by drawing back the end, b,

all other methods, consist in casting the n two parts in such shape thatthey may be put together, at once, by the hands, without anyalterationof either of the parts, or the use of any tools whatever, (unless it bede- 4siredto nish the parts for orna1nent,) so

`that the parts may be taken from the mold, put together, attached to atrunk, and used, before the metal has had time to get cold.

l/Vhat I 4claim as `my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

Casting the article in two parts in such a form that they may be puttogether without any alteration of the parts, and so that they `can notget out of place when the handle is attached to a trunk or otherarticle, when the whole is constructed substantially, as hereindescribed.

ELIJAH A. ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

J. D. WiLLARD, R. FITZGERALD.

